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Located in downtown Toronto, we’re Canada’s oldest and largest university for art, design and media.
OCAD UNIVERSITY As a student here, you benefit from hands-on studio learning. You have access to state-of-the-art shops and BE ADAPTABLE production facilities for both traditional and digital creation. BE RESILIENT You also take rich courses in humanities, business and BE CREATIVE science. The combination is empowering. Through it, you begin to see, make, think and do things differently. You gain incredible insight and skill — everything you need to take on the world.
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WE DEVELOP OCAD UNIVERSITY CREATIVITY AND CREATIVITY IS IN DEMAND 4 5 As a Graphic Design BEGIN YOUR CREATIVE major,“ I had the chance CAREER HERE to learn various subjects from motion design to Our approach is specialized, and individual to typography to packaging your needs and goals. Here, you’ll be able to take design. OCAD U also advantage of: gave me professional opportunities to develop • Experiential learning placements from among experience as a young 400+ organizations designer, and I came out • Creative in-class projects with real-world of school having a much OCAD UNIVERSITY industry partners clearer idea of what I • Exclusive summer internships wanted. I believe the key • Gallery exhibitions of your work to success is to never stop • Freelance creative opportunities learning, never think you • Jobs after graduation know everything already,
OCAD UNIVERSITY and to work on becoming OCAD University’s dedicated support services will a better version of yourself help you build a professional community, valuable every day. I’m grateful for experience and skills. all the people with whom I connected, and who supported me as I moved into the industry as a new Our Centre for Emerging Artists and Designers graduate. will lead you to your happy, successful, meaningful and futureproof career. TRACY CAI (OCAD” U BDes ‘17) LEARN MORE ocadu.ca/CEAD Associate UX Designer LinkedIn (San Francisco) 6 7 FACTS & FIGURES 142 15:1 89% Dozens years of educating student-to-faculty ratio of classes with fewer than of ways we’re here for you: the creative leaders of 30 students
OCAD UNIVERSITY tomorrow • Academic Advising • Career Development • Centre for Students with Disabilities • Experiential Learning opportunities • Financial Planning OCAD UNIVERSITY 18 4,500 18 • Health & Wellness Centre undergraduate students fabrication studios and • Indigenous Student Services programs shop facilities • International Student Services • Student-run clubs and organizations • Student mentoring • Writing & Learning Centre • Visiting artists, speakers and 60+ 7 100+ exhibitions exchange partners graduate programs tools you can borrow 8 worldwide 9
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CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS Jarvis ITALY UNIVERSITY PARK than 40,000 working 7. Art Gallery of Ontario OF Wellesley 8. Artscape Youngplace TORONTO designers as well as the 9. Bata Shoe Museum 10. Campbell House Museum THE 11. Centre for Social Innovation – Annex BROCKTON VILLAGE third largest concentration 12. Centre for Social Innovation – Spadina College VILLAGE (LGBTQ+) 13. Dundas Square of visual arts and 14. Ed Mirvish Theatre 15. Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre College entertainment professionals 16. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts LITTLE 40 3 19 Carlton Spadina 5 17. Gardiner Museum PORTUGAL Oxford in North America. Toronto is 18. Harbourfront 19. MaRS Discovery District KENSINGTON COLLEGE Nassau PARK 1 4 Mutual heralded as one of the most 20. Michener Institute MARKET 21. Princess of Wales Theatre Gerrard OCAD UNIVERSITY
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34. Hockey Hall of Fame 49 PHILLIPS SQUARE 15 Dovercourt Queen West 53 Shaw UNIVERSITY 35. CBC Museum & Graham Spry Theatre Queen West 10 our multi-building urban QUEEN Queen West Queen West Queen East 36. Metro Toronto Convention Centre 42 WEST 16 campus is the iconic Sharp Richmond West Richmond ART & DESIGN SUPPLIES/RESOURCES GALLERY 45 39 52 37. Above Ground Art Supplies 44 47 Adelaide FINANCIAL Centre for Design, open since 38. Curry’s Artists’ Materials DISTRICT Adelaide Adelaide
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COME TO OUR OPEN HOUSE, TAKE A TOUR, ATTEND A PORTFOLIO WORKSHOP OR ONLINE EVENT.
LOOK INSIDE: OCAD UNIVERSITY’S OPEN HOUSE Saturday, October 20, 2018 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. OCAD UNIVERSITY
TORONTO NATIONAL PORTFOLIO DAY Get feedback on your work from experts from art and design colleges throughout Canada and the U.S. including OCAD U. Hosted at York University Saturday, November 3, 2018 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. OCAD UNIVERSITY
PORTFOLIO CLINICS Spend the day in the workshop of your choice. Every one of them is designed to inform and inspire your creativity. You’ll either complete a piece of work to include in your portfolio or pick up a new skill. You’ll also learn how to present your portfolio. Saturdays and Sundays throughout the year
SUMMER WORKSHOP PROGRAMS Through lectures, field trips, artist talks and studio workshops, you’ll uncover possibilities for a personal creative practice, develop new techniques and create SIGN UP works that can be included in your portfolio. ocadu.ca/admissionsevents 14 July 2019 Photo by Sarah Mulholland 15 OUR PROGRAMS
Advertising PAGE 18 Creative Writing PAGE 19 Criticism & Curatorial Practice PAGE 20
Cross-Disciplinary Art PAGE 21 (SPECIALIZATIONS AVAILABLE IN PUBLICATIONS OR LIFE STUDIES)
Digital Futures PAGE 22
Drawing & Painting PAGE 23 (SPECIALIZATION AVAILABLE IN DIGITAL PAINTING & EXPANDED ANIMATION) OCAD UNIVERSITY Environmental Design PAGE 24 (SPECIALIZATION AVAILABLE IN INTERIOR DESIGN)
Graphic Design PAGE 25 Illustration PAGE 28 Indigenous Visual Culture PAGE 29 OCAD UNIVERSITY Industrial Design PAGE 30
Integrated Media PAGE 31 (SPECIALIZATION AVAILABLE IN DIGITAL PAINTING & EXPANDED ANIMATION)
Material Art & Design PAGE 34 (FOCUS AREAS AVAILABLE IN JEWELLERY/METALSMITHING AND TEXTILES)
Photography PAGE 35 Printmaking PAGE 36 Sculpture/Installation PAGE 37 Visual and Critical Studies PAGE 38
Minors PAGE 40 16 Photo by Martin Iskander Research and Graduate Programs PAGE 41 17 ADVERTISING Degree earned: CREATIVE WRITING Degree earned: Bachelor of Design Bachelor of Fine Arts Alongside industry-acclaimed advertising experts Be part of a dynamic hands-on, studio-based approach and researchers, learn about the history, theory and principles of advertising, to the study and practice of writing as artistic creation. This unique program enables you design and narrative. You will apply your design and critical thinking abilities to your to hone your craft while also exploring multiple art and design disciplines. You will study hands-on skills in such areas as art direction, copywriting, storytelling, strategic living literary culture, literary art practices and production, and develop your craft of planning, research, media, digital design and development, social media, UX/ spoken, written, visual and verbal texts as well as experimental language forms. UI, communications and experience design, retail, public relations, photography, typography, time-based media and mixed realities. In the process, you will create WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: innovative solutions for established and emerging brands and communities. • Publishing • Journalism WHERE YOU CAN GO • Writing OCAD UNIVERSITY FROM HERE: • Public relations • Advertising agencies • Community development and marketing firms • Literary performance • Design companies • Production and film studios • Communication and OCAD UNIVERSITY experience design • Digital and social media angencies • Strategic planning
18 Vibeke Silverthorne, Glad Day Bookshop, 2018 19 Photo by Martin Iskander; set-up by Catherine Black, 2018 CRITICISM & Degree earned: CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ART Bachelor of Fine Arts
CURATORIAL Focus on new fields that exist where art, design and Degree earned: PRACTICE liberal studies meet. Gain practical, entrepreneurial Bachelor of Fine Arts and critical-thinking skills while working and making in Learn about professional practice in museums, a studio environment. Specialize in either Life Studies galleries, artist-run initiatives, and emerging or Publications. cultural platforms. Explore the connections and possibilities for collaboration among artists, SPECIALIZATION IN SPECIALIZATION IN curators, writers and exhibition designers. Delve PUBLICATIONS LIFE STUDIES into the philosophy, history, and current practices Explore all areas of book and Explore the perspective of human and of contemporary art and design exhibitions using magazine production and publishing, non-human bodies, from micro to macro OCAD UNIVERSITY creative critical approaches. both digital and print, from DIY views, through the material world, the to academic publishing. With this environment, digital space and science. WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: specialization, you’ll be introduced With this cross-disciplinary specialization • Exhibition production to critical and visual publishing you can take courses including sculpture, • Art curating and art criticism and learn about personal and installation, drawing and painting, • Arts administration and advocacy collaborative production processes. animation, media, and printmaking. • Art consulting (public and private collections, OCAD UNIVERSITY WHERE YOU CAN WHERE YOU CAN auction houses, corporate collecting) GO FROM HERE: GO FROM HERE: • Graduate programs in art history, museum • Artistic practice • Artistic practice and administration studies, cultural studies • Journalism • Natural sciences and related research • Online, print and alternative • Art education, curation publishing • Graduate studies • Graphic arts
Alexandra Beriault, Microscopic 20 Adrienne Hall, Net for Forgetting, untied lucky knots, wood, tangerines, 2016 image: cow retina. 2015 21 DIGITAL FUTURES Degree earned: DRAWING & PAINTING Degree earned: Bachelor of Design or Bachelor of Fine Arts Create the technologies that shape the way we live, Bachelor of Fine Arts Develop your creative voice through the translation and work, and play. Use a human-centric approach to expression of the visual world. Learn about different professional practices as well as the development of games, wearable technology, theory, history and criticism. In this program, you’ll be encouraged to integrate technology mobile apps, VR, interactive installations, and and push the boundaries of traditional and contemporary drawing and painting. You’ll also augmented reality to explore how they can address be able to specialize in Digital Painting & Expanded Animation. contemporary issues and future possibilities. You will work directly with the industries and communities that these technologies impacting, and SPECIALIZATION IN test-drive in real-world situations. You will have the DIGITAL PAINTING & EXPANDED opportunity to explore your own interests in these ANIMATION OCAD UNIVERSITY fields by taking a diverse range of art, design and Experiment with digital art and liberal arts courses. animation. Strengthen your technical abilities in digital imaging, WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: stop-motion, video compositing, • Game design media installation, 3D modelling and • UI/UX animation. With this specialization, OCAD UNIVERSITY • VR/AR development you’ll develop your practice as an • Creative technologies independent artist and animator, • Communications and data visualization and learn skills you can use in a • Internet of things variety of creative industries.
WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: • Artistic practice • Arts or gallery administration • Graphic design • Illustration and mural work • Art conservation and restoration
22 Michael Veneracion, Reclamation: Self Portrait as 23 Photos by Nick Puckett GoodSon ft. Bully. Gold leaf and Oil on Canvas, 2017. Photo by Adam Wiendels ENVIRONMENTAL Degree earned: GRAPHIC DESIGN Degree earned: Bachelor of Design Bachelor of Design DESIGN Learn about the monumental impact that graphic design has had on society and culture Develop creative and responsive designs for interiors, as you prepare to make a mark yourself. Studio architecture, landscape and urban environments. Take courses include design process, typography, courses in design theory and history, colour, interior photography, interaction design, editorial and architectural material, technology and construction, design and motion graphics. lighting, accessibility, sustainability, drawing, graphic presentation techniques and professional practice. WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: • Graphic design studios SPECIALIZATION IN INTERIOR DESIGN • Cultural and public institutions
OCAD UNIVERSITY Focus on the the design of interior and architectural • Journalism and broadcast media spaces. You will develop projects in commercial, • Entrepreneurial initiatives residential, retail, hospitality and institutional contexts, • Sports and entertainment with a variety of interdisciplinary options. You can choose • Graduate studies in design, media to add this specialization in your third year of study. This studies and related design disciplines specialization is accredited by the Council for Interior
Design Accreditation (CIDA). OCAD UNIVERSITY
WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: • Architecture • Landscape architecture • Interior design • Urban design and planning • Graduate studies in architecture, landscape architecture, environmental sciences, urban design, urban planning, and historical restoration and preservation
Anthony Gerace, from the series, There Must Be More to Life Than 24 Shahrzad Nasiri, SIEVE - Infrastructure as Responsive Ecofilter, 2017 This, 2011 25 OCAD UNIVERSITY OCAD UNIVERSITY
Our Drawing & Painting studios are spaces for a range of digital, traditional and alternative approaches to art creation, and many feature plenty of natural light. 26 Painting thesis space, photo by Claudia Hung 27 ILLUSTRATION Degree earned: INDIGENOUS VISUAL Degree earned: Bachelor of Design Bachelor of Fine Arts
Create artful illustrations that CULTURE complement or transcend the Engage in a dynamic and evolving written word. In this program, global discourse unfolding through you’ll develop your personal vision Indigenous art, history and unique and skills by working closely with cultural foundations of creativity. You award-winning illustrators on will research/study and be inspired real-world assignments. These to combine contemporary and cover a wide range of illustrative customary art-practices grounded in applications, including editorial, an imaginative, cross-cultural blend advertising, books, comics, of Indigenous and Western forms OCAD UNIVERSITY concept art, animation, website of knowledge. The studio-based design and fine art, and they’ll BFA program is interdisciplinary help you grasp the principles and includes foundational courses of communication art and in painting, drawing, sculpture, entrepreneurship. integrated media and Indigenous studies/visual culture OCAD UNIVERSITY WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: • Freelance and independent work WHERE YOU CAN • Editorial publications and books GO FROM HERE: • Advertising and graphic design • Artistic Practice • Digital studios • Curation • Artistic practice • Arts Administration • Museum or cultural programming • Art Education • Graduate studies in art, cultural criticism, art history, education, Indigenous and museum studies
28 Toko Hosoya, Earthstar, 2017 Karalyn Reuben, You Gaze Upon Me, photo collage and metal marker, 2016 29 Degree earned: Degree earned: INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INTEGRATED MEDIA Bachelor of Design Bachelor of Fine Arts Learn a critical and user-centred approach to the Approach art making through an design and development of products, interactions and experiences, services, interdisciplinary exploration of media systems — all of which influence and support the many ways that humans behave practices, using tools such as technology, and interact — through research, making, practice and applied creativity. You’ll investigate robotics, electronics, performance, sound, film how society, technology, environment and culture shape our everyday life and inter- and video or animation. You will gain technical actions through the study of design theory, ethics and Indigenous ways of knowing, skills within these mediums and graduate as an model making, material processes, technology, drawing, visual communication, independent thinker and practitioner. In this business and professional practice. program, you can also specialize in Digital Painting & Expanded Animation. WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: OCAD UNIVERSITY • Consumer and commercial product design SPECIALIZATION IN • Home and retail furniture design DIGITAL PAINTING & EXPANDED • Systems and service design ANIMATION • Design with and for emerging technologies Experiment with digital art and experimental • Interaction and experience design animation as you strengthen your technical abilities • Product and service design for in digital imaging, stop-motion, video compositing,
health and wellness applications media installation, 3D modelling and animation. OCAD UNIVERSITY Develop your practice as an independent artist and animator and learn skills appropriate to a variety of creative industries.
WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: • Artistic practice • Film, video and television production • Arts or gallery administration Stein Wang and • Graduate studies in art, cultural criticism, digital media Topher Kong, Hi Thanks Bye production and physical computing Studio, 2018. Photo by 30 Brandon Titaro Sid Tangerine, Field of Uncertainty, a modular synthesis installation, 2017 31 OCAD UNIVERSITY OCAD UNIVERSITY
Our Foundry offers you a facility dedicated to the casting of work in bronze and aluminum using the "lost wax" process. 32 Students working in the foundry. Photo: Christina Gapic 33 MATERIAL ART & Degree earned: PHOTOGRAPHY Degree earned: Bachelor of Design or Bachelor of Fine Arts DESIGN Bachelor of Fine Arts Develop strong critical, creative and conceptual work and skills through the use of analogue and digital Learn how to create jewellery, textiles photography. You will be introduced to contemporary and ceramics as a professional studio artist or designer. In this program, and historical photographic practices that include you’ll focus on making your own functional and expressive objects and camera, darkroom and digital techniques. learn the critical and entrepreneurial skills you need to succeed. Choose to focus on textiles or jewellery/metalsmithing, or take courses from WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: across the two subject areas with electives in ceramics, wearable form, • Artistic practice wearable technology, sustainability and more. • Freelance photography • Digital/print publications or image archives
OCAD UNIVERSITY • Arts or gallery administration • Artist representation, production or photo editing OCAD UNIVERSITY
WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: • Textile/jewellery/ceramic art and design • Fashion/costume design • Product design • Interior design • Graduate studies in art, craft, design, ceramics, fashion, jewellery, textiles, and museum studies
Hatley Walker, Investigations in Ballchain: Reclaiming Embodiment, woven ball chain, tencel, monofilament, 2016. Photo by Kristi Giambattista. 34 Masha Gabrieleva, Neostructivism, 2016. Photo by Nicholas Kalimin Allison Morris, Decisions, 2015 35 PRINTMAKING Degree earned: SCULPTURE/ Degree earned: Bachelor of Fine Arts Bachelor of Fine Arts Work with numerous techniques INSTALLATION to develop innovative works in Experiment with the making of installations and 3D objects, both formats such as books, print- digital and analogue. In this program, you will work in many different based installation or digital fabrication studio courses that encourage the development of ideas processes with text, type and and skills from 2D to 3D woodworking, mould-making, plastics, metal image composition. Explore the fabrication, bronze-casting and more. creative possibilities in etching, lithography, relief, screenprinting WHERE YOU CAN and digital printmaking, and the GO FROM HERE: long-standing connection of • Artistic practice OCAD UNIVERSITY printmaking to social engagement • Exhibition production, installation and community. and the making of public art • Arts or gallery administration WHERE YOU CAN GO • Art education FROM HERE: • Artistic practice
• Commercial design and OCAD UNIVERSITY illustration • Online, print and alternative publishing • Commercial print production • Arts or gallery administration • Independent web, graphic and digital design and communication
36 Jana Ghalayini, The Ocean Seeping Through My Fingers, Silkscreen on Chiffon, 2017 Rouzbeh Akhbari, Institutional Stabilizer (Art Gallery of Ontario), reclaimed shipping pallets, 2014. Photo by Francis Zhang 37 VISUAL AND Degree earned: CRITICAL STUDIES Bachelor of Arts
Pursue a BA in art history in the creative and dynamic environment of an art and design university. Core courses provide you with historical depth, global perspectives and the critical skills you need to explore art, design and media. In this program you’ll have the opportunity to choose from a wide range of elective options that enable you to pursue studio minors, as well as one of our many other interdisciplinary minors.
WHERE YOU CAN GO FROM HERE: • Art curation and management
OCAD UNIVERSITY • Arts journalism and criticism • Publishing • Graduate studies in art history, education, cultural and museum studies OCAD UNIVERSITY
Visual and Critical Our Fibre Studio gives you Studies Students visit access to equipment that the Introducing Suzu Lake exhibition at the Art lets you explore the media Gallery of Ontario. Photo and practices of textiles. 38 by Ansel Schmidt 39 MINORS RESEARCH AND Studio, Liberal Arts & Sciences, and interdisciplinary minors at OCAD University give you the flexibility to construct a program of study that responds to your interests, curiosities and passions. GRADUATE
• Art & Social Change • Gender and Sexuality Studies PROGRAMS • Art History • Illustration Artists and designers have always learned to think and invent through research. • Communication Design • Indigenous Visual Culture Today, they are being recognized for sparking new innovation through work that
OCAD UNIVERSITY questions and inspires, devices that make life better, and systems and tech • Creative Writing • Industrial Ceramics that improve healthcare, business and manufacturing. • Digital & Media Studies • Integrated Media Through on-campus research jobs, you’ll get the chance to work in labs and studios • Digital Media • Material Art & Design alongside leading artists and designers, investigating how art, design and media are changing communities locally and globally.
• Drawing & Painting • On-Screen Media OCAD UNIVERSITY What’s more, if you discover your passion for art, design and media research while • English • Photography you’re an undergrad at OCAD U, you might consider applying to one of our graduate programs. That way you’ll have an unrivalled opportunity to create new ideas with expert • Entrepreneurship & Social • Printmaking faculty and professionals, both here on campus and through exceptional internships. Innovation • Sculpture/Installation
• Expanded Animation • Social Sciences Find out more about Find out more about research at graduate programs at • Furniture Design • Sustainability ocadu.ca/research ocadu.ca/graduate • Games and Play • Wearable Technology
, 2017 40 Find out more: ocadu.ca/academics/minors Annette Mangaard, Meltdown: An Investigation of a Seascape in Two Forms 41 GRADUATE PROGRAMS
INTERDISCIPLINARY MASTER’S IN ART, CONTEMPORARY ART, DESIGN AND DIGITAL FUTURES MEDIA AND DESIGN NEW MEDIA ART HISTORIES Length of program: 2 years FT Length of program: 2 years FT, 3 years PT Length of program: 2 years FT Degree earned: Master of Arts, Master Degree earned: Master of Arts, Master of Degree earned: Master of Arts of Design or Master of Fine Arts Design or Master of Fine Arts
Consider the ever-shifting worlds of Respond to the role of digital Investigate and produce works that contemporary art, design and new technology as a catalyst for integrating combine art, design and interdisciplinary media art through a compelling array of societal, cultural and economic change. academic study to create new forms of
OCAD UNIVERSITY local and global perspectives. Participate in the global digital visual and social research and creative revolution that fuses together disruptive production in a studio environment. CRITICISM & CURATORIAL PRACTICE technology and new thought leadership. Length of program: 2 years FT STRATEGIC FORESIGHT AND Degree earned: Master of Fine Arts INCLUSIVE DESIGN INNOVATION Length of program: 2 years FT Length of program: 1.5 years FT or 2.5
Explore and experiment with Degree earned: Master of Design years PT OCAD UNIVERSITY contemporary art, media and design Degree earned: Master of Design through engagement with history, theory Using the lens of design thinking, and criticism within curatorial practice. become a global leader in equity and Join a diverse cohort of professionals access issues in the public or private from the public, private and volunteer DESIGN FOR HEALTH sectors. Leverage digital technologies sectors to envision a world from a Length of program: 2 years FT, 3 years PT to create inclusive policies, services, human perspective. Learn to design Degree earned: Master of Design products and solutions that can be used and co-create sustainable solutions to by everyone. complex, real-world problems that are Evaluate the complexity of healthcare impacting your field. through a comprehensive design approach. Create ethical, sustainable solutions to pressing challenges across the health sector. 42 Annette Mangaard, Meltdown: An Investigation of a Seascape in Two Forms, 2017 43 WANT TO BECOME A SO, HOW DO I APPLY?
STUDENT AT All applications for After you apply through the OUAC you will be notified by email of the exact dates, admission are made online deadlines and methods you need to follow to submit your portfolio, supplemental OCAD U? through the Ontario items or assignments, as well as when you will need to submit transcripts and meet Universities’ Application the academic entrance requirements. Here’s some information to get you started: Centre at ouac.on.ca. The
OCAD UNIVERSITY You can imagine what recommended deadline others can’t see. to apply for all programs ADMISSION TO THE BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE WRITING is based at OCAD U is February primarily on a writing portfolio consisting of prose, poetry, spoken word, experimental You’re inspired and want the 1st. Applications received or hybrid forms that demonstrate your creative writing ability and potential. In chance to develop your ideas after this deadline will be addition to the portfolio, you must submit a Statement of Intent that outlines your considered as space is academic and/or professional experience, how your writing interests align with the and express them. available. The only entry program, and any record of publications, performances, awards, or participation in OCAD UNIVERSITY point is in September each writing workshops. You’re an inventor who seeks year. Offers of admission a like-minded community where to OCAD U’s programs ADMISSION TO THE BACHELOR OF ARTS IN VISUAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES is you can collaborate, create are based primarily on the based on a combination of a review of a written assignment and your grades. and challenge one another to strength of the applicant’s Applicants to this program are required to submit the following to be considered reach greater heights. portfolio or supplemental for admission: Statement of Intent, original writing sample responding to a topic application materials. All provided by OCAD U, and official transcripts. offers are conditional upon You want to put your meeting the minimum ADMISSION TO ALL OTHER UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS is based primarily on creativity to work. academic requirements your portfolio. It’s one of the most important components of your application. All and supplying all required offers of admission based on the portfolio are conditional on meeting academic You’ll find your home at OCAD U. documentation. entrance requirements. See the next page for more. 44 45
WHAT SHOULD I INCLUDE IN MY PORTFOLIO? (For all programs except Creative Writing and Visual and Critical Studies)
Your portfolio is a collection of work that represents your individual creative and technical experiences and accomplishments and should be a visual representation of who you are. You need to demonstrate that you are a visual communicator and that you are well-equipped to succeed at OCAD U. Keep in mind that when it comes to your portfolio, some of the most important features we look for are skill, passion, curiosity and your ability to think creatively.
OCAD UNIVERSITY Key elements of the portfolio for admission include:
• Statement of Intent – Explain your interest in the program that you have applied to, as well as what inspires or influences the work that you do. • Process Work – Show your sketchbook, process and concept development skills as part of your portfolio. • Finished Work – Include 8 to 10 examples of your finished original work. Be sure to OCAD UNIVERSITY show some work that is directly related to the program that you are applying to. • Descriptions – Explain in 50 words per finished piece the process, method, media, concept and purpose of each piece.
Visit our website for complete and up-to-date details on portfolio requirements, submission options, program-specific guidelines and assignments.
ocadu.ca/admissions
46 Photo by Martin Iskander 47 ACADEMIC ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS APPLICANTS WITH PREVIOUS POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION:
While the primary basis of admission to OCAD University is the assessment of the • Satisfactory proof of proficiency in English (an approved course or language test) portfolio, writing sample and supplemental application materials, strong academic skills • Completion of one or more years of post-secondary education are essential for your overall success. All offers of admission to OCAD U are conditional • Submission of official transcripts, including high school, required for review upon successful completion of the academic entrance requirements. The following *Applicants in this category may qualify for transfer credit; visit our website for further details. chart is meant to be used for reference; full academic entrance requirements are *Additional proof of English Language Proficiency may be required available on our website. APPLICANTS TO AN UPPER YEAR: APPLICANTS CURRENTLY ATTENDING AN ONTARIO SECONDARY SCHOOL: • Successful completion of one or more years of post-secondary education equiva- • Successful completion of the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) lent to the first year of program applying to at OCAD University • OCAD UNIVERSITY • ENG4U (or EAE4U) with a minimum final grade of 70% Satisfactory proof of proficiency in English (an approved course or language test) • A total of six grade 12 U or M level courses with a minimum academic average of • Submission of official transcripts, including high school, required for review
70% (including ENG4U) *OCAD University offers Articulation Agreements with several partner institutions; visit our website for further details. *Additional proof of English Language Proficiency may be required *Additional proof of English Language Proficiency may be required
NON-TRADITIONAL (MATURE) APPLICANTS APPLICANTS CURRENTLY ATTENDING HIGH SCHOOL OUTSIDE OF ONTARIO:
• 20 years of age by September 1 of the year of intended enrollment OCAD UNIVERSITY • Successful completion of high school supported by submission of • Satisfactory proof of proficiency in English (an approved course or language test) official transcripts • Exempt from full academic entrance requirements if not engaged in formal • Senior level academic English course with a minimum final grade of 70% education for at least two years. Submission of official transcripts, including high (or equivalent) school, required for review • Minimum 70% (or equivalent) overall academic average in senior level university preparatory courses
*Additional proof of English Language Proficiency may be required ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS Applicants to an undergraduate program who are English Language Learners and who have not completed four consecutive years in an English language school system may be required to submit the successful results of an English Language Proficiency Test. We Find out more: ocadu.ca/admissions currently accept the following standardized English Language Proficiency Tests: IELTS, TOEFL, CAEL, PTE and COPE. Visit our website for details on minimum score thresholds, 48 other acceptable tests, language school partners and other requirements. 49
*OCAD University reserves the right to request results of a standardized test of English Language Proficiency from any applicant. ADMISSIONS CHECKLIST NOTES
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OCAD UNIVERSITY Prepare and submit your portfolio and statement of intent (for admission to the Bachelor of Design or the Bachelor of Fine Arts programs) OR Submit your writing sample, creative profile and official transcripts (for admission to the BA in Visual and Critical Studies)
Receive conditional offer of admission, and accept it OCAD UNIVERSITY Meet all academic entrance requirements and conditions of your offer
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50 Background: Anda Kubis, Leap (detail), oil and digital output on canvas, 2013 51 WHAT’S NEXT SEIZE OPPORTUNITY Graduates from OCAD University are prepared to take on an incredible range of creative challenges, and we actively develop employment FOR AN OCAD U partnerships that connect students and alumni to meaningful
OCAD UNIVERSITY opportunities for starting or continuing a career. Whether it’s arts and GRAD? culture, design, media, technology or any other sector, our specialized approach in this area helps you establish and realize your unique goals.
This past year, students from OCAD U have gone on to work with organizations such as RBC, Deloitte, GM, Bruce Mau Design, Umbra,
IBM, Tridel, Canadian Heritage, Pigeon Brands, Facebook, Bridgeable, OCAD UNIVERSITY University Health Network and many, many more. CREATE YOUR OWN CAREER ADVANCE YOUR KNOWLEDGE Applied learning experiences available to students at OCAD U routinely extend far beyond the classroom, enabling you to explore the potential An undergraduate bachelor’s degree from OCAD U can set the stage for for your creative practice on your own terms. More than 80% of all our further learning at the graduate level (master’s or PhD), particularly if you graduates will spend at least some part of their careers as self-employed aspire to work and/or do research in a fields such as architecture, education, freelancers or entrepreneurs. And, while you’re at OCAD U, you will be medicine, law or business. Many OCAD U students decide they would like to exposed to the professional skills, networks and support services that make pursue additional education once they graduate, and their time at OCAD U this highly-transferrable approach to working within everybody’s reach. offers a rich foundation on which to build.
52 53 OUR ALUMNI
OCAD UNIVERSITY ROUZBEH AKHBARI JESSICA CHING
Program: Sculpture/ Program: Industrial Design, ’09 Installation, ’16 Job Title: Co-Founder & CEO at EVE Medical Job Title: Artist As an artist, Rouzbeh works in Jessica is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eve a variety of mediums including OCAD UNIVERSITY Medical. Following her passion to integrate sculpture, video and photog- design and healthcare, she founded Eve raphy, often linking them in Medical post-graduation. She and her team installations. Rouzbeh has have brought a self-sampling device (HerSwab) shown his work locally as well and home diagnostic platform (Evekit.com) as globally, most recently with from early concept to commercial launch. an exhibition that opened in Eve Medical was a finalist in the global Quest Beijing. He is currently pursuing Award to End Cervical Cancer, and Jessica a Master’s in Visual Studies at was named a 2016 Canadian Business Change the University of Toronto John H. Agent. Eve Medical continues to operate Daniel’s Faculty of Architecture, as a social enterprise focused on designing Landscape and Design. innovative user-centred medical products. 54 55 RICKEE CHARBONNEAU MERYL MCMASTER Program: Digital Futures, BDes ’14, and Inclusive Design, MA ’17 Job Title: Accessible Designer and Program: Photography, ‘10 Researcher Job Title: Artist
Rickee completed both her undergraduate Meryl works with props and sculptural and graduate degrees at OCAD U and now garments in her photography to works as the Creative Technology Lead at explore representation, perception, a marketing agency. Her award-winning myth, memory, the environment and AmpGear, developed during her undergrad- her cultural heritage as Plains Cree. uate years in the Digital Futures program, is Meryl’s works can be found in the a crowd-sourced prosthesis design project collections of the Canadian Museum OCAD UNIVERSITY that can be made at home on a 3D printer. of History, the Art Gallery of Ontario, In addition to her career and personal the National Museum of the American creative practice, Rickee works as a research Indian, the Ottawa Art Gallery and FiGO Rear Support Pet Wheelchair assistant in accessible web design. Photo: Pete Thorne Photo Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada. Her solo exhibition Confluence tours Canada through 2018. OCAD UNIVERSITY TOM BRIGGS
Program: Graphic Design, ’11 Job Title: Lead Graphic Designer at Cervélo Cycles
Cervélo Cycles, a Toronto-based bicycle manufacturer, hired Tom in 2015 to join the team as Lead Graphic Designer. He designed the new paint job for team MTN-Qhubeka, the first African team in the Tour de France, as well as the Great Britain Olympic Team bikes for the 2016 Rio Olympics (where they brought home six Gold medals). Outside of his role at Cervélo, Tom has worked on graphics and branding projects for 56 Photo by Steve Loughlin companies including Nike and Moog Music. Meryl McMaster, Viage, Digital chromogenic print, 2010 57 ADMISSIONS & RECRUITMENT CONTACT INFORMATION
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